The Bloodgold Queen

ARIS WILL BURN

One Empire Rises … 
Twins Stiva and Chandris zri Aris learned the rules of deadly court intrigue long before becoming king and queen. To find her way as queen while enemies threaten from both within and without, Stiva must become colder, more cunning, more calculated. But her biggest challenge, and by far the most dangerous, is dealing with her twin. Chandris is determined to forge a new empire, using the forbidden ancient science of the Elders … a technology that destroyed their ancestral homeworld.

… As Another Falls
As Stiva realizes that her brother's dreams of glory will either bring Aris into a new golden age or leave it in ashes, she fights to protect the Reonih from her twin's lust for power. But as a new order rises and war rages through the land, she realizes she may also have to protect herself from them. The Zhur, the supernatural elementals that walk between worlds, seem to have their own intentions for Stiva, and the one man who stands loyally beside her, the ice-cold assassin Khirin, may have an agenda of his own. As kingdoms fall and the stakes rise, Stiva finds that the line between ally and enemy is covered in blood and gold.